PC Tuvalu En Route

Peace Corps group departing Los Angeles airport for Tuvalu via Fiji, May 17, 1980. The group consisted of five married couples and one individual and was the second group to be assigned to the country. Each couple was posted on one of the outer islands (Nanumea, Nui, Nukufetau, Vaitupu, and Nukulaelae), while the single woman was posted at the hospital in Funafuti.